My whitespace style

deeptech71 at gmail.com deeptech71 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 14 21:46:53 PDT 2009


David Kelly wrote:
> 
> On Apr 14, 2009, at 6:24 PM, deeptech71 at gmail.com wrote:
> 
>> David Kelly wrote:
>>> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:46:26AM +0200, deeptech71 at gmail.com wrote:
>>>> Tabs are better, because they allow the programmer to specify the
>>>> desired width, and is dynamically changable at any time.
>>> Spaces are better because they let the author specify the formatting and
>>> not left to some other re-interpretation.
>>
>> And indeed they should used where formatting is important. However, 
>> C/C++ indentation is not of this nature.
> 
> 
> It is if you want your comments to stay lined up, and code remain readable.

I don't want to make my comments stay lined up, and code still remains 
reabable.

> There are many sections of code I write C in *columns*, especially when 
> making repetitive calls to the same function with different arguments. I 
> make the arguments line up in a column. printf() is a common example, 
> that I want the arguments to line up no matter it has no effect on the 
> output. I indent for readability and the result almost never survives 
> variable tab interpretation.

Could you please give me a (preferrably widely used) example of 
columnizing calls which cross different levels of indentation?


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